What's the Strangest Place You Have Had a Deer Die?

[Rusty]

When my daughter shot her deer last night it crashed into a nasty thicket of Japanese Barberry.  It only went 40 yards and after pushing through the chest high prickers this is what we found.

 

[BowhunterNJ]

Wow that's crazy. And dangerous! Can only imagine walking around in the dark and you fall into that!

I can't think of any weird places any of the deer I've shot have died.

[Rusty]

 Can only imagine walking around in the dark and you fall into that!

 

How about running full speed after being shot and falling down into that? 

[rgw]

I had a buck drop in my neighbors driveway just as he was pulling in. he stopped to look at the deer standing 10feet in front of him in the middle of drive, the deer got his wobble leggs and dropped right there. that was the first time those city folk found out I hunt. lol

[rgw]

the best part was he started to honk his horn to get it to move. lol I walked up to his car in camo and said I donk think he is going to move on his own. I grabed a horn and walked off

[Tarhunt]

Not me but, my friend shot a 9 point that ran passed him on a drive and the buck fell off of a cliff and landed in the South branch of the Raritan. My other friend and I walked about an eight of a mile downriver to retrieve it. One side of the buck's antlers was stuck on a tree root. We had to drag it to a paved road where my friend that shot it, droved down to pick it up. I found out the water is very cold in mid January. LOL!

[MackofallTrades]

My buddy's father shot one and it ran to his pickup...literally 6 feet away from the tailgate.  He had to drag it away from his vehicle just to gut it...

[DRBetz]

My buddy's father shot one and it ran to his pickup...literally 6 feet away from the tailgate.  He had to drag it away from his vehicle just to gut it...

The last deer I shot in PA did the exact same thing, right out to the road and collapsed dead in the drainage ditch, I have to drag it back up the bank  into the woods for gutting,.

[JimmyScags]

Not a deer but I shot a black pheasant hen this weekend at Hunt's. I thought I hit her good but she flew back towards the coop and though she got away so we continued to hunt. I needed to go back to my truck to grab more shells, we don't hunt the phez often, and a water. When I got to my truck she was lying not 6ft off my front bumper!

[Bubblehead]

my brother an i were out doing one man deer drives (one guy sits at the most likely exit point and the other walks real slow getting deer on there feet but not running, we got pretty good at it and were very succesful) on a piece of property that we goose hunted and the farmer asked us to remove some does from.  The very first drive i started walking along a hedgerow towards a piece of woods.  I wasnt even loaded because at one point in this particular drive we got closer than 450 ft to the neighbors property, i usually loaded up once i got past that point the deer usually hung out past there anyway.  To my surprise before i even got to the piece of woods i had three deer break from the hedgerow and run out the other side to another piece of property.  A fourth deer however ran out into the field right in front of me.  Out of habit i drew down on her as she stopped only 15 yards in front of me.  Quickly i realized the gun was unloaded and lowered my gun.  at this movement she spun and ran back into the hedgerow.  this is where it gets crazy. I watch her try to jump the small ditch in the hedgerow. She stops in midair though and continues to try to run but she is 3 ft off the ground.  Confused i enter the hedgerow to find her three ft off the ground stuck in the Y of a tree.  She is kicking like crazy so i knew there was no safe way to free her, i decided the humane thing to do was to end her life quickly.  It was a crazy place to die but a point blank head shot meant no ruined meat and her poor decision on place to jump meant a very unusual story for me and some very good meals

Edited January 13, 2016 by Bubblehead

[FLEWTHECOUPE]

Helped my buddy track his deer for hours at night

With no luck so we started back to our trucks.

When we got to the trucks I pointed to the middle

Of the lake. Thier is your deer I said sarcastically.

I had no idea what was in the lake until he pulled out the

Spotlight.

Had to run home for the canoe lol

[Turkeyboy44]

I shot a doe one night and she fell in this guys fish pond in his back yards boy was he pissed

[Bucksnbows]

My buddy and I were driving deer on the 2nd day of PA rifle buck season many years ago.  We pushed 3 baldies out of the woods we were driving and one ran smack into a sheep fence at full speed and broke its neck and died.  Back then, doe season didn't start until the second week of gun season, so all we could do was tell the neighbor knowing he and his family would not let it go to waste.  We were both a bit freaked out that we caused its death and really couldn't claim it, but we did learn our neighbor "made the problem go away" and were glad to hear it fed a poor, local family at the time.    

[LPJR]

Rusty, that definitely is some spot to find your daughter's deer!

[Nomad]

Had one completely submerged in a water filled skidder rut up in Maine.

Edited January 13, 2016 by Nomad